PARASOL

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YODOYA & GALLERY TOMO are please to present PARASOL a solo exhibition of works by Yoji Kondo at this Golden week. “PARASOL” is a title of Kondo’s first short movie and is a love story for all who had lost the face. Among all the matter, according to cosmology although it accounts for 5 % of whole universe, we human has been finding many meanings and mysteries in the face. Like “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci, Acephale by Georges Bataille, the face by Emmanuel Levinas and No-Face by Hayao Miyazaki, various efforts about the lack or the other in the face had already been conducted. It is gradually hard to have sincere emotion and express that directly because of the developed surveillance system, the chain of loneliness by too much individualism, the lack or saturation of the meaning itself and so on. In our living world such like that, perhaps you also have a face that you never show anybody or nobody knows. A man and a woman in this short movie is also losing their emotions. One day, however, Mr. PARASOL emerges in front of them and then the circumstances facing them changes completely. A parallel story with which a parasol connects. Hope you like it.
このたびYODOYAとギャラリー知は共同でこのゴールデンウェーク、ヨージ・コンドーの個展『パラソル』を開催いたします。今回上映する『パラソル』は、ヨージ・コンドーの初短編映画であり、顔を失ったすべての人へ贈るラブストーリーです。全宇宙の５％を占めると言われるマターの中で、これまで人は、もっともよく見ているもののひとつであろう顔という部分に多くの意味と謎を見出してきました。モナリザ(レオナルド・ダ・ビンチ)、無頭人(バタイユ)、顔(レヴィナス)、カオナシ(宮崎駿)など、顔に関する喪失や他者といったテーマはすでに、多くの取り組みが行われています。監視システムの発達、行き過ぎた個人主義による孤独の連鎖、あるいは意味の飽和や欠如などにより、私たちが生きる現代社会は、素直な気持ちを抱くことや、それを表に出すことがますます難しくなっています。そのような生活世界において、誰にも見せていない顔を持つ人は、決して少なくはないでしょう。本作の男女もまた、表情を失っています。しかし、バラバラだった二人の前にミスター・パラソルが現れることで、状況は一変します。パラソルがつなげるパラレルストーリー。ぜひお楽しみください。Duration : April 28 – May 10, 2015 Tuesday-Sunday 12:00-19:00 ※Monday closed.Opening reception : April 28 7-9pm (Starring Makoto Aida and Kayoko Tokumoto will also come)Venue : GALLERY TOMO
633, Shimogoryo-cho, Teramachi Tounan-kado,Marutamachi-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-0995
TEL : 81+75-585-4160 MAIL : info@gallert-tomo.com HP : www.gallery-tomo.com/会期：2015年4月28日-5月10日 火曜-日曜 12:00-19:00 ※月曜休廊オープニング・パーティー：4月28日 19:00-21:00 (主演の会田誠さん、徳本賀世子さんも来場を予定しています)会場：ギャラリー知
〒604-0995 京都市中京区寺町通丸太町東南角下御霊前町633青山ビル1F
TEL : 075-585-4160 MAIL : info@gallery-tomo.com HP : www.gallery-tomo.com/

PARASOL
Yoji Kondo
April 28 – May 10, 2015
Opening party April 28 7-9pm
GALLERY TOMO
YODOYA is please to present PARASOL a solo exhibition of works by Yoji Kondo at GALLERY TOMO. “PARASOL” is a
title of Kondo’s first short movie and is a love story for all who had lost the face. Among all the matter, according to
cosmology although it accounts for 5 % of whole universe, we human has been finding many meanings and mysteries in
the face. Like “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci, Acephale by Georges Bataille, the face by Emmanuel Levinas and NoFace
by Hayao Miyazaki, various efforts about the lack or the other in the face had already been conducted. It is
gradually hard to have sincere emotion and express that directly because of the developed surveillance system, the
chain of loneliness by too much individualism, the lack or saturation of the meaning itself and so on. In our living world
such like that, perhaps you also have a face that you never show anybody or nobody knows. A man and a woman in this
short movie is also losing their emotions. One day, however, Mr. PARASOL emerges in front of them and then the
circumstances facing them changes completely. A parallel story with which a parasol connects. Hope you like it.
Yoji Kondo (2013- YAP) is interested in a filter. It is based on his nature that he can’t communicate with anybody without a media. When he was a high
school student, though he had lived in Japan through his teenage, he didn’t hide his uncomfortable feeling. It becomes obvious by his video, that is, he
couldn’t leave his video camera in a school excursion because it was too difficult for him to talk to class mates without seeing them through the finder
( In”YAP 21” 2013, four works was installed including the video work). In this “PARASOL”, he adopted the parasol as a filter for connecting the two different
persons( parasol is a light umbrella used to give shade from the sun. para- ‘protecting against’ + sole ‘sun’ ) .
GALLERY TOMO
Tuesday-Sunday(12:00-19:00)
633, Shimogoryo-cho, Teramachi Tounan-kado,Marutamachi-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-0995
TEL : 81+75-585-4160 MAIL : info@gallery-tomo.com HP : www.gallery-tomo.com/